Citizenship
Consul - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
Consul is an open source project for citizen engagement which allows the citizens to vote, propose certain ideas or debate them. One example of the plataform is the site “Decide Madrid” (https://decide.madrid.es/) created for the city of Madrid which is being used for the purpose described before.
https://github.com/consul/consul
OpenAQ - Open platform for air quality data
OpenAQ is an open source project (the first of its kind) which provides air quality data for different places all around the globe. Its objective is to empower different comunities to fight air pollution. It has been used in places like Delhi, Sarajevo, etc.
https://github.com/openaq
https://github.com/openaq/openaq-info
polygons
A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. Feel free to use it anywhere you want to, make any video, text adaptation or modify it.
https://github.com/ncase/polygons
http://ncase.me/polygons
Social Stream
Social Stream is a framework for building social network websites, it also provides different components to customize the different social networks out there.
https://github.com/ging/social_stream
http://social-stream.dit.upm.es/
Example of social network created using this framework: http://www.vishub.org/
REFUGE restrooms
Refuge restrooms provides safe restroom spaces to transgender and queer people, it points out safe or gender neutral restrooms around a specified area.
https://github.com/RefugeRestrooms/refugerestrooms
http://www.refugerestrooms.org/
Sheltr
Is an application used to locate the nearest local homeless shelters. It has an MIT license so it is possible to use it as much as you want.
https://github.com/sheltr/sheltr
OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager
This application is designed and built for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team collaborative emergency/disaster mapping, the OSM Tasking Manager 2.0 divides an area into individual squares that can be rapidly mapped by thousands of volunteers.
https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2
tasks.hotosm.org
Ampify
Ampify is an open source, decentralised, social platform. It is intended as a successor to the Open Web and as a replacement for closed platforms like iOS and Facebook by providing a web application framework to create social apps on top of a secure, decentralised core.
https://github.com/tav/ampify
HumHub - Social Network Kit
HumHub is a flexible open source social network kit written in PHP for creating social intranets, enterprise social networks, private social networks, etc.
https://www.humhub.org/en
https://github.com/humhub/humhub
Hospitium
Hospitium is an Animal Management Software for Rescue. Developed to fit the needs of the rescue.
https://hospitium.co/
https://github.com/ninetwentyfour/Hospitium
SavePets
Three Montgomery Upper Middle School students are working on an app for SAVE (an animal shelter) to provide the following capabilities:
-Allow potential adopters to view pet inventory and contact SAVE if interested
-Allow people to see what donations SAVE needs
-Allow potential volunteers to sign-up
https://github.com/codeforprinceton/savePets
StrayMapper
A web tool to help reunite more stray animals with their human companion
https://github.com/codeforamerica/straymapper
https://github.com/codeforamerica/straymapper
Africa WaterMap
This project is an interactive map of Africa’s access to water and sanitation
https://github.com/aptivate/africawatermap
HomelessPartners
Platform for pledging gifts to homeless people and another volunteer activities.
https://github.com/stringbeans/homelesspartners
HomeLess
HomeLess is a medium project, created with the idea of helping the needy from Uruguay
https://github.com/homelessuy/HomeLess
HomeFul
Crowfunding project to give money to homeless people
https://github.com/codeforboston/homeful
Impact
A social network for users to contribute to society and donate to charities.
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=social+impact
Awesome tech for good
A selection of projects, organisations and useful tools for social-impact tech
https://github.com/TechforgoodCAST/awesome-techforgood
Spread
Social impact platform to denounce discriminatory situations. Social inequality occurs when a group limit, reproach, discriminate and / or affect the status of another group, class or social circle, decreasing their access to their fundamental freedoms, depriving them of their rights assured as humans. Software, acting as a game-changer in our society, have great potential to produce a positive social impact and can even reduce inequality through social justice, considering its ubiquity in the modern world. This work, aims to bring relevant social change to communities through technology.
https://github.com/johanngomes/spread